Self Leadership Theories And Practices

The path to a personal leadership philosophy is made up of three parts. Each individual aspect is a facet of a complete whole. Much like a timeline that includes a past, present and future, my personal philosophy consists of a foundation, action, and growth. If you do not understand where your foundation of leadership came from, you will have problems acting in a leadership capacity. Also if don’t pay attention to how you are acting as a leader you cannot know in what ways you need to grow. Why should I spend the time and effort in developing myself as a leader? The Gunner’s Mate rating has a strength of just over 600 members. Maritime Force Protection Unit Kings Bay has 31 Gunner’s Mates assigned to it. I have a full five percent of the Gunner’s Mates in the Coast Guard that I lead. During my four year assignment at MFPU Kings Bay, approximately 55 Gunner’s mates (9.2 percent) will have been under my leadership. I see that as an enormous responsibility. As a young Gunner’s Mate I saw my senior leadership as people capable of effecting great change on the rating. Now today I am in the position to have that same impact.

According to dictionary.com leadership is defined as, the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: Its synonyms include guidance, influence, control, direction and supervision. These are all qualifications that are needed to be an effective leader. All characteristics are not necessarily needed at the same time and do no need to be used for each subordinate. This paper will identify my personal leadership philosophy along with theories to support my leadership style.

Dreher, in the text: The Tao of Personal Leadership, does just as the title states; demonstrates personal leadership. The text is broken up into two parts, divided into eighteen sections, covering approximately two hundred and sixty pages, from cover to cover. With part one being an introduction of finding the inner Yin (good), and section two is describing the yang (bad) of leadership. The five sections at the heart of the text, in order, are: Zanshin, Centering, Presence and Process, Timing, Respect, Yohaku, Joy, Building Community, Vision, Empowerment and Growth, Communication, Conflict, Transcending Ego, Creating Harmony. A quick summary of each section will

Strong and effective leadership is one of the most significant factors in determining the success and durability of an organization or group (Huber, 2014). A health care professional that is able to identify their own style of leadership can develop their unique characteristics and skills and become a better leader, as well as develop and improve relationships with other leaders and colleagues (Giltinane, 2013). In this paper, I will discuss my style of leadership based on the completed self-assessment and describe what leadership and management theories align with my leadership style. I will also discuss the type of work environment and three key actions or behaviors that I must demonstrate to be a successful leader.

I scored an eighty-seven (87) on the How Good Are Your Leadership Skills? Self-assessment quiz, which rated my skills as excellent. This score was not surprising to me because I’ve worked hard to become the best leader possible, and leading people is something I enjoy. Motivating people to achieve or surpass a particular goal is rewarding to me.

According to organisational behaviour by McShane, leadership is defined as influencing, motivating and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organisation of which they are members (page 382, McShane).Becoming an effective leader depends on the leader’s leadership style. Successful leaders have vision and charisma, also the leader should have an ongoing personality, talkative, careful and self-disciplined. The leader must also have self-concept

From Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela’s charisma, to Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King’s intelligence and Steve Jobs’ analytical nature, there can be as numerous ways to lead as there are leaders (Crossman, 2010). Leadership is a hot debate both in the business world and other areas of the society. Throughout the world's, there have been as many leadership models as there have been their commentators (Burns & Peltason, 1966). Fortunately, psychologists and businesspersons have established useful frameworks that refer to the main ways of leadership.

During this leadership demonstration I decide that I was going to step out of my comfort zone and do something different than the suggested demonstration ideas. My original idea did not work out, I wanted to build hygrine bags for the homeless and hand them out at Our Place, an organization in Victoria. When I contacted them they already had an event set up to hand out five hundred bags. I was thinking about volunteering with them to hand out the bags, but the idea of this project was to lead a demonstration. Volunteering felt like being a follower to someone else’s idea. So, I decided to go with the self-care idea, but it was difficult to follow through because I felt like it was dumb and was not going to

If one has no leadership ability, one cannot be a leader. If one does not make what his or her followers consider the correct decisions to achieve their goals, no one will have faith in the leader's abilities and, consequently, no one will follow and without followers, there can be no leader. Another important criterion which one must have in order to be a leader is a person who leads a crowd in the direction where the goal can be accomplish as well as someone who acknowledges a problem and finds solutions to it.

Different experiences come a long way to form my model of self-leadership currently. During my first years of my employment, the dean in the department I worked in Vietnam was a transformational leader who motivated me significantly. Among senior faculties in the department, she was not evaluated as the best researcher or instructor. However, no one in the department rejected the fact that she was a very effective leader. She led to a noticeable transform inside the department. Before she undertook the position of a dean, the department was full conflicts among senior faculties due to promotion issues. The senior faculties merely collaborated with each other or shown up

A large amount of credit is given to Bass 's transformational leadership theory identifies four aspects of

Mr. Ronay’s history encompasses 35 years of leadership as a CEO, consultant, founder, trainer, and coach in technology, life style, leadership, change management, and disruptive businesses domestically and internationally. He has devoted much energy to public service and volunteer organizations. Written for the Aug Austin Software Council newsletter.. June, 2001

Self-leadership is defined as the process people influence themselves to establish self-direction, self-management, and self-motivation (Neck & Manz, 2010).

This refers to the leadership of self which stipulates the concentration of an individual’s capability to outline the route/direction of self-leadership (Rank, 2000). It complements the functions of a leader and the application of leadership principles (Rank, 2008).

A survey conducted with 63 managers in large firms by HRM journal (2000) state that managers who are self-aware are more effective than those who are not self-aware. As a consequence, they say that features of self-aware leadership (have self-regard and self-development) may provide important selection criteria for managers.